Talia Backman
@taliamycota.bsky.social
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Postdoc at Mary & William in the TIDAL lab🌱🍄🟫
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c0nc0rdance
7 days ago
Timeline cleanse: Baby tapir getting scritches for their itches. If you want to scritch your very own tapir & you live outside of Central or South America or SE Asia, you'll need to visit a zoo. But these little guys are (evolutionarily) from around here, in North America. Let's talk about it.
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Geoff Zahn
about 1 month ago
Come join the TIDAL team if you like big data parasitism, growing weird fungi, or pretending to model random noise! (Also folks who are into translating ecology into policy)
cdsp.wm.edu/about/news-e...
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At the Forest’s Edge: New Research Uncovers How Microbes Shape Ecosystem Resilience
Microbes are everywhere – on your skin, in your gut, in the soil beneath your feet, even floating in the air you breathe. Most people think of microbes in simple terms: some make you sick, while other...
https://cdsp.wm.edu/about/news-events/news/at-the-forests-edge-new-research-uncovers-how-microbes-shape-ecosystem-resilience.php
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TIDAL lab origins, 2026!🍄🟫🌊🧚♂️
about 1 month ago
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I asked my PI for tape dispensers and this shows up the next day 🍄🟫
@geoffzahn.bsky.social
2 months ago
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Postdoc = open to new experiences and expanding my skills 🤓
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2 months ago
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Hernán A. Burbano
4 months ago
Our new collaborative work led by
@taliamycota.bsky.social
Jiajun Cui & Emma Caullireau between my lab
@ucllifesciences.bsky.social
@cloeucl.bsky.social
& the Karasov Lab (
tkarasovlab.org
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@uofubiology.bsky.social
and collaborators:
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et al.
tinyurl.com/5yx2wmz5
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Eric Topol
9 months ago
This is wild! Engineering E. coli bacteria to turn plastic waste into paracetamol (Tylenol)
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Geoff Zahn
9 months ago
Any students want to apply for this to study microbiome assembly processes with simulations and microcosms?? Hit me up!
www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/simons...
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Simons Graduate Fellowships in Ecology and Evolution
The purpose of these awards is to provide support for students entering U.S.-based Ph.D. programs with a plan to perform research in ecology and evolution. While we will consider all projects in ecolo...
https://www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/simons-graduate-fellowships-in-ecology-and-evolution/?utm_source=Simons+Foundation&utm_campaign=f0b7b0634b-2026_LS_GRAD_FELLOW_IN_ECO_%26_EVO&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-dea4c45f3e-746274027
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Dmitri Petrov
9 months ago
Check out this brand new fellowship from the Simon’s Foundation in Ecology and Evolution. Incoming grad students this year are eligible to apply. No citizenship restrictions.
www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/simons...
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Simons Graduate Fellowships in Ecology and Evolution
The purpose of these awards is to provide support for students entering U.S.-based Ph.D. programs with a plan to perform research in ecology and evolution. While we will consider all projects in ecolo...
https://www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/simons-graduate-fellowships-in-ecology-and-evolution/?utm_source=Simons+Foundation&utm_campaign=f0b7b0634b-2026_LS_GRAD_FELLOW_IN_ECO_%26_EVO&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-dea4c45f3e-746484893
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Geoff Zahn
12 months ago
Yes!!! Note: -Lab meetings will be held at an oyster bar (I'm buying) -We have several cool systems to work in -Flexible mentorship to match your goals -Lots of
#mycology
kitsh -Highly collaborative -Williamsburg is cute as hell
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I’ll be starting a postdoc in the TIDAL lab in the Fall, come do science with us!!🧬🧫
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12 months ago
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Front cover!!!!!!!!!!! :’)
over 1 year ago
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Wonderful podcast describing our Science paper! (2nd half)
bit.ly/3T5RQaF
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TWiM 316: Food addiction and the gut microbiome
TWiM describes experiments to explore gut microbiota signatures of vulnerability to food addiction in mice and humans, and how a phage tail-like protein suppresses competitors in populations of bacter...
https://bit.ly/3T5RQaF
over 1 year ago
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Check out our review on the evolution of tailocins!
www.cell.com/trends/micro...
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Tradeoffs and constraints on the evolution of tailocins
Phage tail-like bacteriocins (tailocins) are protein complexes produced by bacteria with the potential to kill their neighbors. Widespread throughout Gram-negative bacteria, tailocins exhibit extreme ...
https://www.cell.com/trends/microbiology/fulltext/S0966-842X(24)00086-6
over 1 year ago
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I started out thinking I was getting into bacteriophage research that ended up taking an exciting turn to researching something I had never heard of before studying them- tailocins :) Check out my PhD work thus far!
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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A phage tail–like bacteriocin suppresses competitors in metapopulations of pathogenic bacteria
Bacteria can repurpose their own bacteriophage viruses (phage) to kill competing bacteria. Phage-derived elements are frequently strain specific in their killing activity, although there is limited ev...
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.ado0713
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